
Article 1 
The Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, and Slovakia shall apply Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 from the second twelve-month period of the application of the levy scheme in those Member States, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 6.A, point 13 of Annex II of the Act of Accession.
Article 2 
By way of derogation from Article 12(2) of Regulation (EC) No 595/2004, the Commission may authorise the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, and Slovakia, for a period ending 31 March 2007 at the latest, on the basis of duly justified requests, to use the national average milk yield instead of the average milk yield per cow representative of the herd.
Article 3 
In the case of Poland and Slovenia, the report provided for in Article 27(3) of Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 shall be notified by 1 September 2005 at the latest.
Article 4 
The Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, and Slovakia shall not apply Article 25(1) of Regulation (EC) No 595/2004.
Article 5 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 2 July 2004.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission